'Preparing for you Early Years Initial Teacher Training' Edition 2
'Preparing for you Early Years Initial Teacher Training' will support you in your personal & professional development as you work towards becoming an Early Years Teacher. It is full of strategies that can help you prepare for returning to study, make decisions about your career and organise, evaluate and strengthen your evidence.
Additional bonus material is available for the first time in Edition 2. This introduces you to a range of strategies and tracking templates that can help you make sure you have all the evidence you need and that it is as strong as it possibly can be.
Each chapter focuses on one key strategy to help you achieve your EYTS:
Chapter One ‘Becoming an Early Years Teacher’
Getting into the right frame of mind for success.
Chapter Two ‘New Horizons’
Choosing your career direction: making decisions to promote your career progression.
Chapter Three 'Four Steps to Success'
A four-step framework that will enable you to prepare for study and meet each Standard.
Chapter Four ‘Meeting the Age Range and Leadership Requirements’
Apply the four steps as you meet the age-range and leadership requirements.
Chapter Five ‘Preparing to Study’
Tips, practical strategies and study skills to help you organise yourself.
Chapter Six ‘Strategies and Tips'
Ideas to help you strengthen your evidence.
Appendix 1 '9 Strategies to Strengthen your Evidence'
Appendix 2 'Track your Evidence'
Templates for tracking and evaluating your evidence
The activities in each chapter will help you to:
- Evidence your reflective practice and leadership,
- Relate your practice to the requirements,
- Create evidence for a range of Standards,
- Identify your evidence for key requirements including introducing a change, leading and
supporting your colleagues and your practice with each age range,
- Understand how to evaluate and strengthen your evidence,
- Focus on the themes, decisions and requirements you can explore with your mentor,
- Create a monthly action plan,
- Identify sources of support,
- Prepare for your midpoint assessment or Developmental Progress Review.
- Choose documents for your portfolio and evaluate the strength of each piece you include.
Illustrations by Clare Walker and cover design by queen_graphics.
'Preparing for you Early Years Initial Teacher Training' will support you in your personal & professional development as you work towards becoming an Early Years Teacher. It is full of strategies that can help you prepare for returning to study, make decisions about your career and organise, evaluate and strengthen your evidence.
Additional bonus material is available for the first time in Edition 2. This introduces you to a range of strategies and tracking templates that can help you make sure you have all the evidence you need and that it is as strong as it possibly can be.
Each chapter focuses on one key strategy to help you achieve your EYTS:
Chapter One ‘Becoming an Early Years Teacher’
Getting into the right frame of mind for success.
Chapter Two ‘New Horizons’
Choosing your career direction: making decisions to promote your career progression.
Chapter Three 'Four Steps to Success'
A four-step framework that will enable you to prepare for study and meet each Standard.
Chapter Four ‘Meeting the Age Range and Leadership Requirements’
Apply the four steps as you meet the age-range and leadership requirements.
Chapter Five ‘Preparing to Study’
Tips, practical strategies and study skills to help you organise yourself.
Chapter Six ‘Strategies and Tips'
Ideas to help you strengthen your evidence.
Appendix 1 '9 Strategies to Strengthen your Evidence'
Appendix 2 'Track your Evidence'
Templates for tracking and evaluating your evidence
The activities in each chapter will help you to:
- Evidence your reflective practice and leadership,
- Relate your practice to the requirements,
- Create evidence for a range of Standards,
- Identify your evidence for key requirements including introducing a change, leading and
supporting your colleagues and your practice with each age range,
- Understand how to evaluate and strengthen your evidence,
- Focus on the themes, decisions and requirements you can explore with your mentor,
- Create a monthly action plan,
- Identify sources of support,
- Prepare for your midpoint assessment or Developmental Progress Review.
- Choose documents for your portfolio and evaluate the strength of each piece you include.
Illustrations by Clare Walker and cover design by queen_graphics.
